Well the idea isn't to avoid correcting people who go astray but rather to avoid pointing to others faults as evidence of your righteousness. That's what most p

Well the idea isn't to avoid correcting people who go astray but rather to avoid pointing to others faults as evidence of your righteousness. That's what most people do (even those who aren't religious as I'd normally define it). The Bible states in the same book (Romans chapter 2 for the first citation and 6 for this one) that the wages of sin is death--meaning this life or the next.